Last Exit: Complex, compelling, and intense

Reposting to include Marion’s new review.

Last Exit by Max Gladstone

Here is Max Gladstone’s recipe for a Last Exit (2022) cocktail:

  • One part fervent, confident intensity of young adulthood
  • One part fever dream (or nightmare) of magic and alternate worlds
  • Add bitters in the form of mid-life fears, regrets, and resignations born out of both trauma and simple aging
  • Splash of Mad Max
  • Zest of Zelazny
  • Stir with a rusty spoon of entropy
  • Pour slowly into a clear (eyed) glass filled one-quarter with the crushed ice-dreams of Americana myth and rimmed with sugar for a little bit of innocent sweetness
  • Serve with a shot of hope (the kind that burns on the way down)(And don’t forget to tip your bartender — you’re going to be a regular)

Gladstone’s newest is a darkly compelling and intense work,


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